Profiles in Architecture & Design: African American Architects Who Changed Our World
At one point in our travels we have gone through Los Angeles International Airport. Did you know that one of the great African American architects in the United States was responsible for the concept of one of the busiest airports Read more

A Pioneer and Inventor of the K Brick – Precursor to the Concrete Block
Imagine living in the early 1900s and actually owning and driving your own car. Can anything be more progressive for the times?
Anna Keichline, Pennsylvania’s first registered woman architect and the first woman to actually practice the profession, led an extraordinarily non-traditional life. Aside from being an architect and inventor, she served as a special agent for military intelligence in World War I. She participated in a women’s suffrage march in Washington, D.C. and served on President Hoover’s Better Housing Conference.
Born in Bellefonte, PA in 1889 and the youngest of four children, Keichline showed promise at an Read more